Declaring December to be National Metaphor Month

9:38 PM,
Nov. 30, 2012

Bruce Wheaton

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Bruce Wheaton
| Writers? Group

Let's go ahead and declare December National Metaphor Month. The big seasonal tropes already are in play. There's the one where a rosy plump guy stands for all that's worthwhile about humanity. There's the one where ginger cookies represent all the love ever heaped on us by prior generations. And there's the one where buying diamonds pretty much guarantees that guys will get holiday sex.

This year is special, though. We have a figurative tsunami of important December metaphors - including two biggies: the "fiscal cliff" and a candidate response to it, "kicking the can down the road."